WHIO News
Dayton Live News & Weather
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| WHIO News |   10TV WBNS Columbus, Ohio |   NBC4 Columbus |   WLWT News 5 - Cincinnati, Ohio |   FOX19 NOW |   WDTN 2 News |   Dayton Daily News |   WKRC Local 12 News |   WSYX ABC6 |   WCPO 9 Cincinnati |   Dayton 24/7 NOW | |
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| Rating / 5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.8 |
| Reviews | 21K | 27K | 7.9K | 4.9K | 3.4K | 2.6K | 2.2K | 643 | 638 | 304 | 49 |
| Released | 2013 | 2020 | 2010 | 2012 | 2011 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 |
| Monthly price | — | — | — | — | — | — | $9.99 | — | — | — | — |
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WHIO News reviews
4.6 out of 5, based on 21,188 reviews.
What people like
- Great daily news coverage for local events
- You can listen to news instead of watching
- Good access to weather alerts during storms
What they complain about
- Ads block content and slow it down
- Clicking stories often shows wrong headlines or blanks out
- App freezes, stutters, and crashes frequently
- News updates are slow and sometimes inaccurate
Great info
Love Todd So I watch all of whip
Bias News
Always baiting people with horrible titles. Only see one side of things and it’s the side you try to indoctrinate people with. Your news is too long. Your puff stories to justify being on the air so long comes across as if your viewers are dumb and they need to be talked to like children.
No Coverage
June 4 Medicare Fraud Meeting in Columbus. FBI, State Attorney present. $50 Million illegal funding discovered in Medicare payments in Ohio!
Review
To many pop up ads and redirects. Make it simple
Slow to load and often doesn’t
I wish this app was better and not so slow. All my other apps are super fast to load and never fail to load. Come on WHIO, fix this mess.
I love this app
Even if I can't watch the news it will still let me listen I like that feature and I love all the channels you can watch on the app.
Too Many Ads
The content is good. However, the app is so burdened with poorly developed ads that my iPhone locks up every time I try to use it. Dayton Now performs much better.
Ok
I only have one problem with app I get alert about something and then when I go to it it’s not there
Frozen
It freezes up too often
Average performance app
The app often paints the screen in a stuttering manner, loading some elements, then stalling out, then loading more text and photos, if it doesn’t freeze entirely. It makes you wonder if it’s loaded with all sorts of background scripts, trackers, etc.
News Notion
Great coverage on a daily basis.
App freezes or completely shuts the app
Always glitching and freezing and shutting me out.
Update
Often you run stories that are old. Same with the weather. I suggest you update more often. Thank you.
Poor rating reason
My sub stellar review is due to the inconsistency in information posted. Some stories stay up for months. Many important local matters are not posted at all. News from many counties away are posted as “local” and real local stories are ignored. The Right wing takeover of CBS has definitely shown itself in the stories posted.
Advertising
To advertising ads when trying to look at site
Love the app & videos
The hubby & I rarely watch the show unless there’s a major weather event otherwise we use the app.
Worst news app ever
I’ve never seen a worse app on any platform. It’s nothing but ads that block what you try to see, stutter, stop you reading a story, and just generally get in the way of anything you want to do. Whio used to be my go-to. Not anymore.
Closings
Not sure I care for the new way the closings are listed
Worst weather forecast
Britley called for 3 inches, but we didn’t get 3 tenths.
It has developed some bugs
It used to be great, but now, I can’t forward any articles on the app to anyone, and the videos don’t work half the time.
Horrible UI/UX and News Coverage
As a mobile developer I can attest to many of the comments on the user experience front. You receive a notification, tap on it, you are brought to the app but not the story, instead ads are everywhere takes forever to load and the auto playing of unrelated content is absolutely horrible. Good luck finding the arrival of the deep link isn’t valid. Don’t waste your time if you want a functional user interface, or you want a smooth user experience. The news platform is ridiculous, days late on news from around the nation if it’s relevant, click bait style notifications, vague content descriptions, something like “Country music star files for divorce after 10 years” incredible click bait. Just say who it is, being cryptic is absurd. Oh yeah, don’t worry you received that notification today, you’ll get it again in 4-5 days incredibly annoying but let’s not forget this specific notification already happened days ago.
Love Coverage - App Wonky
I love the news content. But once I click the Live story at the top, it’s difficult to navigate to other stories on your App.
App won’t launch
Over the last 2 to 3 weeks, I received an “App Could Not Be Started” error. I have deleted and reinstalled the app and I still get the same error. I loved the app prior to this.
Mrs Jacobs
Can’t find pollen counts on your apps
Do better
Not impressed with your news reporting techniques and skills these days.
App
Sometimes the screen goes blank. Trouble downloading stories. Sometimes when you scroll the story you pick won’t load. Won’t let me submit the review
Poorly designed app
WDTN works so much better. Why stick with an inferior product?
News Announcements
Why do you keep posting the same stories over & over? It’s ridiculous! And a lot of the sports posts stay on for days instead of posting new ones.
Too many ads
The WHIO app is awful. The news is old and no one seems to know how to proofread! The lack of coverage on sports has been nonexistent. There should be an easy and in your face way to access WHIO of news in real time and it is difficult to find. It seems to be easier to upload storm/weather photos than it is to report accidents etc.
Audio shuts off when minimized
I use the app a lot, but it makes no sense to me that the audio shuts off when you open another app.
Awful
Pretty much just a terrible app. Loaded with adds posing as news stories. Videos play automatically, even after turning off that feature. Alerts of news stories pop up as banners, but when you click the banner, half the time, there is no such news story. If you want to know about school and business closure mentioned on the app... You need to download their weather app that is also basically useless except for checking delays and closures in the winter.
Wake up!
When I pull up a story that I want to read about, it comes up with a different story. It’s like someone isn’t paying attention to what they are doing. Very annoying!
Too many videos
Clicking on a story results in being sent to a video link, which takes even more time to load and view. This method is not the best fit for use on a phone- at least place the text of the story along with video for quicker access to the content
App has changed
What is going on? When I click on a news story a different story, altogether comes up. Also, when scrolling down through the stories the page will completely blank out, like they can’t load. Why are there still stories about things from weeks ago? Like the NATO summit.
Weather temperature reading for Dayton..,
…grossly inaccurate.
Links to incorrect story
The past few days when I click a link for a news story the article that comes up is not the same as the headline. iPhone 15, not sure if you had an "update" lately or someone is linking incorrectly
WHIO News FAQ
- Is WHIO News free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 2 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does WHIO News have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to WHIO News?
- 10TV WBNS Columbus, Ohio (4.7 from 26,570 reviews), NBC4 Columbus (4.6 from 7,913 reviews) and WLWT News 5 - Cincinnati, Ohio (4.6 from 4,856 reviews).
WHIO News download
Last updated 6 months ago.
WHIO News sells in 2 countries. It was released 12 years and 11 months ago, on 31 Oct 2013. It holds a 4.6 rating from 21,188 reviews.
Supports 2 languages: English, Spanish.
How much does WHIO News make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.